Category: Amazon Selling Tips

In order to grow your business, you must scale your Amazon business. Seems redundant right? Scaling is growing, right? Well, yeah. But this assertion is not that obvious when it comes time for the rubber to hit the road. After all, what is scaling, and what does it mean as you begin to consider launching …

The industry of online retail is so aggressive that no Amazon seller, whatever the scale or experience, should be taking success for granted. One should constantly stay on top of the latest trends and tech to maintain a competitive edge. Attending an Amazon conference is one of the best ways to learn actionable content from those …

The average price of a product on Amazon is about 25 dollars. And it makes sense. Everyone has 20 bucks. It’s the sweet spot for impulse buys and quirky gifts. Souvenirs and knick-knacks sold in airports are usually priced under 20 dollars, even when it’s a pen or a shot glass. You can just grab …

EBay used to be the original E-commerce marketplace. When I was in college I would buy vintage T-shirts, shark teeth, and other quirky things on EBay all the time. It was to fun bid five bucks for a purple and green 80’s Hawaiian shirt that nobody else wanted and get it in the mail a week later. …

Avoiding “The Race to the Bottom” Price War is a State of Mind Ask any Amazon seller doing retail or online arbitrage what their biggest frustration with selling on Amazon is, and you will end up listening to a 10-minute rant about sellers leading a “race to the bottom” price war. The “race to the …

Happy belated Chinese New Year! While a quarter of the world just celebrated the Chinese New Year, do you know that Chinese sellers on Amazon are getting more and more in percentage? More than 60% of e-retailers in China sell on Amazon marketplaces. Up to 90% of them sell on Amazon.com, according to a report released …

Wow Dan, that sounds like a riveting blog post, please let me read it immediately. You’re probably not thinking that are you? You were hoping for something like “How To Find A Top Selling Private Label Product In Six Minutes” or “Source Your Online Arbitrage At These Stores Because No One Else Does” weren’t you? …

Email marketing has always been king. It was king back in 2012, and it’s king in 2018. But… Selling on Amazon, you can’t use email marketing in the way typical marketers do. You can’t send anything promotional, and you can’t build your email list. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t know some basics of email marketing …

As an Amazon seller, you wouldn’t have a business without inventory. And you wouldn’t be able to grow your business without a solid inventory management strategy. After all, if you consistently run out of stock or have the bulk of your income tied up in stale inventory, you’re not going to grow. Instead, you’ll lose …

I started selling on Amazon when I had a full-time day job for a large corporation. I did it to bring in extra money so that my wife didn’t have to return to work after her maternity leave. It took me some time to realise that I was running a real business rather than an …

Amazon’s fulfillment centers aren’t warehouses, and Amazon doesn’t make money out of keeping your stuff under its roof. Amazon makes money when you sell your things. Because of that, Amazon Long-Term Storage Fees are a way to gently “force” you to do something with your excess inventory. What are Amazon Long-Term Storage Fees? Amazon assesses LTSF …

Let me get this straight. If your products are not selling, scroll down to the Pricing and Product and rethink your entire strategy over. Optimize amazon listings may be your safest bet to improve sales. If you want to sell more, here are some tips on how to optimize Amazon listings. Images Images are the most …

Selling on Amazon isn’t easy and while it’s impossible to know what will sell, and make you successful, at least we know what to avoid if you are new to Amazon FBA. Here’s our list of things that new Amazon sellers should avoid: 1. Items for less than $10 There are cheaper items that sell on Amazon, …

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is one of the best ways to lead people to your website. So, why don’t you do it for your own Amazon store? It will increase the traffic and will ensure great sales and position of your store on Amazon. Every day, the competition among Amazon sellers is increasing. Every …

What if you are missing out on a lot of potentially profitable products when you are doing online or retail arbitrage because of one mistake? Dismissing products where the sales rank is not good enough for you. You need a decent rank to make sales right? True to some extent, but what if you could …

Nowadays, if it doesn’t have an app, Alexa will work it out for you. There are exceptions of course. International freight is massively, frustratingly, un-automatedly, one of them. No wonder the industry has low “transparency.” That is, you may not get answers to basic questions like how competitive a quote is, or how well a …

Christmas is undeniably the most important time for online sellers all over the world. It is also one of the busiest time for online shoppers, online sellers and for Amazon themselves! During this peak festive season, it’s more important than ever to be at the top of your game in order to stand out amongst your competition …

If you are a Private Label Seller, the question you should ask yourself isn’t “Should I enroll my brand in the Amazon Brand Registry?”. The question is “When?” you should do it. Brand Registry is a must for established Private Label products. It gives you not only more control over your products and listings, but it also provides …

“You make your money when you buy your stock” or something similar is something that is often repeated like a mantra amongst Amazon sellers. It is certainly true that if you can find and purchase stock that is potentially going to sell at a profit on Amazon then you have done a lot of the …